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About Nikhil Chakravarty
- Nikhil Chakravartty (1913-1998) was an Indian journalist. Chakravartty was born on 3 November 1913 in India's northeastern state of Assam.
- He was the founder-editor of the respected current affairs weekly Mainstream.
- He graduated from the University of Calcutta and went on to study at Merton College, Oxford.
- Chakravarty taught history at Calcutta University in the 1930s before taking to journalism.
- Before plunging into active journalism, he was special correspondent of the Communist Party of India’s People’s War and People’s Age.
- In 1959, he set up the India Press Agency and immediately broke the story on the alleged espionage activities of the then Prime Minister’s personal assistant, M.
- O.
- Mathai.
- The story rocked parliament and Mathai was forced to resign.
- He then founded Mainstream with which he was associated, first as editor then as adviser until his death.
- Between 1975 and 1977 he played a key role in press freedom and with other senior journalists fought against Rajiv Gandhi's Anti-Defamation Bill and forced its withdrawal. Chakravartty was a member of the Second Press Commission, and of the National Integration Council, as well as the Indo-US Sub Commission on Education, Culture and Media.
- When the Prasar Bharati board was constituted in 1997, Chakravartty was appointed as its first Chairman.Chakravartty died on 27 June 1998.
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